It has been an amazing and busy day! We began with a wonderful breakfast in our hotel--all grateful to see eggs again! Then we marched...

On this trip, I've really learned the virtue of early rising. By getting up so early we got to see Venice wake up as we went down the...

The Palazzo Ducale/Doge's Palace, a gargantuan structure full of some of the most beautiful gold leaf ceilings and perspective paint....

Today we went to THE most beautiful opera house in the world, La Fenice. It was a pastel blue, pink, and white theme. And had lots of...

After a long day and evening of travel we arrived, safe and sound, at Marco Polo Airport and were whisked off to Venice by two water...

It's about twenty minutes before we board the plane. I'm very excited, since this is going to be my first time out of the country, and...

San Francisco Opera Guild Opera Scouts have been busy! Immersed in Italian culture, language, and music, this winter the troupe enjoyed...

December is the month of pageants and solos and chorus concerts, of orchestral evenings and dance recitals, of A Christmas Carol and...

We are currently living in a complicated, divided culture where passions, loyalties, assumptions, and fears are tested, flexed, asserted,...